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Morton G Cogswell

Morton G Cogswell

Male 1846 - 1921  (74 years)

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  • Name Morton G Cogswell 
    Birth 9 Dec 1846  Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1871  Lakeville, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 25, born NS, farmer, living next to parents 
    Census 1881  Lakeville, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 34, born NS, farmer 
    Census 18 May 1887  Spokane Co, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 40, born NS, farmer 
    Census 8 Jun 1900  Fairfield, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 53, born Dec 1847 in NS, married 35 yrs, imm in 1885, farmer, parents born NS/NS 
    Census 21 May 1910  South Moran, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 63, born CAN, married 44 yrs, imm in 1888, general farmer, parents born CAN/CAN 
    Census 19 Jan 1920  Valleyford, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mort, age 73, born NS, imm in 1884, mat in 1889, widowed, invalid, parents born NS/NS, living with son 
    Death 8 Feb 1921  Sharon, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Fairview Cemetery, Rockford, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1624  Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart, Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2020 

    Father Gideon Cogswell,   b. 17 Jan 1805, Halifax, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Apr 1879, Cornwallis, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Lucilla S. Perkins,   b. 1810, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Mar 1894 (Age 84 years) 
    Notes 
    • In 1871 census, Sarah, age 19, born NS living in household. (possible grandchild)
    Family ID F391  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Amelia “Minnie” Corbet,   b. 2 Oct 1844, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jan 1918, Sharon, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [1
    Marriage 1867  Cornwallis, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Alice Cogswell,   b. Aug 1868, Cornwallis, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1903 (Age 34 years)
    +2. William Edward Cogswell,   b. 27 Jan 1869, Woodville, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Mar 1931, Walla Walla Co, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    +3. Hennie Hezekiah “Henry” Cogswell,   b. 10 Dec 1873, Woodville, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1961, Spokane, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
    +4. Bud Gideon Cogswell,   b. 22 Nov 1874, Woodville, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Nov 1960, Jerome Co, ID Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     5. Andrew Jackson Ross “Ross” Cogswell,   b. 19 Jan 1887, Spokane, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1966, Spokane, Spokane, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F1088  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Feb 2012 

  • Photos
    Morton G Cogwell
    Morton G Cogwell
    Image of Morton Cogswell from House of Representatives Group Photo taken on 1909

    Headstones
    Morton Cogswell Gravestone
    Morton Cogswell Gravestone
    b. 1846, d. 1921, Father
    Plot: 299-G-Old

  • Notes 
    • from "The Spokane Spokesman-Review", 10 Feb 1921 (newspapers.com)
      Cogswell - Morton Cogswell, age 75, a resident of eastern Washington since 1885, died yesterday at his home in Sharon. He is survived by four Sons, W.E. Cogswell of Walla Walla, H.H. Cogswell of Idaho, B.G. Cogswell of Espanola, and Ross Cogswell of Sharon. The body is at the New England rooms.
    • from "An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington" by Jonathan Edwards
      MORTON COGSWELL, a pioneer of 1885. is a native of Nova Scotia, born December 9, 1846. He received his education in the schools of that province and later engaged in farming. While there he held, for ten years, a commission under Queen Victoria as peace ofificer. Subsequently he spent a year in Minnesota, then returned to Nova Scotia and remained until 1885, when he came to Spokane county and engaged in farming. The next year he removed to Moran prairie and he lived there for the ensuing three years, then came to Rockford, where he followed the hotel business two years, kept a livery stable for one and then a saloon for two. In 1892 his liquor business was burned out and he moved onto his farm eight miles southeast of Rockford. Mr. Cogswell is an enterprising and industrious man and has a fine farm of rich, productive land, well improved and furnished with a splendid house and barns and other necessary buildings. Indeed, he deserves rank among the most thrifty and successful farmers of the county. He was married, in Nova Scotia, January 15, 1868, to Miss Amelia Corbett. a native of that province, and they have five children: Alice, wife of Fred Sheldon, of Olympia; William, a farmer and blacksmith; H. H.. a drayman in Spokane; Budd G., a farmer, and Andrew T. R-

  • Sources 
    1. [S73] Canadian Census 1881, Roll: 13173 Page: 25.